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• Greenlander
  
  • Best Professions: Cook, Farmer, Researcher.
    
  • Equipment Slots:
    
    • All slots available.
      
  • Weather Effects Immunity: None.
    
  • Factions Reputation: Neutral to most places.
    
  
  
• Scorchlander
  
  • Best Professions: Light Weapon Melee DPS, Crafter (Armour-smith, Weapon-smith).
    
  • Equipment Slots:
    
    • All slots available.
      
  • Weather Effects Immunity: None.
    
  • Factions Reputation: ?
    

• Hive Prince
  
  • Best Professions: Ranged/Light Weapon Melee DPS, Thief, Medic, Researcher.
    
  • Equipment Slots:
    
    • All [Bodyarmour] and [Legwear].
      
    • Some [Headgear] and [Shirts].
      
    • No [Footwear].
      
  • Weather Effects Immunity: Acid.
    
  • Factions Reputation: ?
    
  
  
• Hive Worker Drone
  
  • Best Professions: Light Weapon Melee DPS, Engineer, Farming, Turrets.
    
  • Equipment Slots:
    
    • All [Bodyarmour] and [Legwear].
      
    • Some [Headgear] and [Shirts].
      
    • No [Footwear].
      
  • Weather Effects Immunity: Acid.
    
  • Factions Reputation: ?
    
  
  
• Hive Soldier Drone
  
  • Best Professions: Melee DPS.
    
  • Equipment Slots:
    
    • All [Bodyarmour] and [Legwear].
      
    • Some [Shirts].
      
    • No [Headgear] or [Footwear].
      
  • Weather Effects Immunity: Acid.
    
  • Factions Reputation: ?
    

Can only be healed by using [Repair Kits]
Don't need to eat.

• Best Professions: Heavy Weapon Melee DPS, Robotics, Turrets.
  
• Equipment Slots:
  
  • All [Bodyarmour] and [Legwear].
    
  • No [Headgear], [Shirts] and [Footwear].
    
• Weather Effects Immunity: All types.
  
• Factions Reputation: HATED in the Holy Nation territory. They will be attacked on sight.
  

• Best Professions: Tank, Heavy Weapon Melee DPS.
  
• Equipment Slots:
  
  • All slots available.
    
• Weather Effects Immunity: None.
  
• Factions Reputation: DISLIKED in the Holy Nation territory. Need a human as companion to be allowed around, otherwise will be attacked.
  

The Freedom Seekers
Starts with 6 characters, one of them being decently strong.

Create the following characters:

• 1 x Human Greenlander
  
• 1 x Human Scorchlander
  
• 1 x Skeleton
  
• 1 x Hive Prince
  
• 2 x Shek

Holy Nation Precautions
• They hate Skeletons and Prosthetics, will attack on sight.
• They dislike Sheks, Hives and Women. Always have a Male Greenlander with the party.
• Have a Holy Flame book.
• Participate in the Praying Day event if you have a Base in their territory.

• Go to [Squin], its located Southwest of [The Hub] in the Border Zone region.
  
• (Holy Nation Players) Go to [Stack], its located North of [The Hub] in the Okran's Gulf region.
  
• (United Nation Players) Go to [Stoat], its located in Southwest of The Great Desert region.
  
• Buy [Wooden Backpacks], it allows you to stack items 9 times in a single slot.
  
• Mine [Copper Resources] outside the city walls and sell it in the stores.
  
• Remember to buy food for your characters, [Dried Meat] is the most cost efficient in the early game.
  
• If you get attacked by anything or anyone, run to the city gates to get some help from the guards, don't fight stuff on your own yet.

• Buy the southern [Broken Longhouse], then use/buy the necessary [Building Materials] to repair it, Its cheaper compared to buying a fully built house.
  
• You will use this [Longhouse] for a long time since it has a huge area to place stuff around.

• Build the Tech > [Small Research Bench].
  
• Buy regular [Books] from the stores if they are available or check the nearby cities for it. They are crucial for researches and you will need lots of it, just don't go broke buying it...
  
• Research Industry > [Storage Boxes: Ores].
  
• Research Core > [Tech Level 2].
  
• Build the Tech > [Research Bench 2] and dismantle the [Small Research Bench].
  
• Crafting > [Fabric Manufacture], so you can buy [Cotton] and turn into [Fabric].
  
• Research Core > [Tech Level 3] and upgrade the [Research Bench 2].
  
• Research everything else that doesn't have a cost or anything else you want if you have [Books].

• Build a [Storage: Copper] inside the house to automate the mining process of your characters.
  
• Select your Miner and press [Shift + RightClick] in the [Copper Resource] and then in the [Storage: Copper], to create the Job Orders to automate their job.
  
• The Job Orders are listed in order of priority, from top to bottom.
  
• Make sure to activate the [Jobs] tag in the right side panel, otherwise the character won't follow the orders.
  
• If you are also mining [Iron Resources], build a [Storage: Ore].
  
• (Optional) Activate the [Sneak] tag on your miners, they will be a little safer from bandit attacks and level up the [Sneaking] skill, but will move slower.

• Slowly build-up your [Group], check [Bars] in the cities for people which fit the profession you are in need and recruit them.
  
• Some Recruits charges nothing to get hired, check the section in this guide called "Recruitable Characters" for their locations.
  
• Remember that each Race and Sub-race have awesome specific traits!

• Research the Core > [Beds] tech to allow you to rest your characters in their own bed and don't waste money paying to rest on Bars, also character recover their injuries faster in Beds.
  
• Research the Training > [Simple Training Dummies] and [Better Training Dummies] to increase the overall survival chance of your group by training them in the dummies.
  
• Research the Industry > [Clothing Manufacture] and [Hats and Headgear] to enable [Bandanas] crafting.

To level up this skill fast craft [Bandanas] using [Fabric]. After level ~30 you will start to craft [Standard] quality and profit from buying the [Fabric] to craft and selling the item crafted.

Quality of the Armors:
• Prototype (Lv 0)
  
• Shoddy (Lv ~20)
  
• Standard (Lv ~30)
  
• High Grade (Lv ~40)
  
• Specialist (Lv ~60)
  
• Masterwork (Lv ?)

• Research the Industry > [Clothing Manufacture] and [Hats and Headgear] to enable [Bandanas] crafting.

To level up this skill craft [Katanas], the blueprint costs 10.000c and can be found in the [Blister Hill] weapon shop located in the Holy Nation Territory.

• Research the Smithing > [Basic Weapon Smithing], [Basic Weapon Grade], [Basic Weapon Grade 2], [Basic Weapon Grade 3], [Basic Weapon Grade 4], [Basic Weapon Grade 5].

To find a Pack Bull to buy you have to look for the Nomad's Caravan, talk to their leader and buy 1 or 2 Pack Bulls.

The fastest way to level up your combat skills and attributes is by... fighting and get beaten.

• Combat Attributes:
  
  • Strength:
    
    • How to level up: Using [Heavy Weapons] in combat. Carrying lots of weight.
      
    • Increases damage and attack speed for [Heavy Weapons].
      
    • Increases [Blunt Damage] of weapons.
  • Toughness:
    
    • How to level up: Taking damage, Getting hurt, Get beaten up, Losing battles, the higher amount of enemies = higher amount of exp.
      
    • Increases your [Damage Resistance].
      
    • Go to [Skinners Roam] with Heavy Armor equipped and fight the group of ~40 Starving Bandits, everytime you get KO and playing-dead, immediately get up for a massive level boost. Be careful to not get at -100 or more in any limbs.
  • Dexterity
    
    • How to level up: Using [Light Weapons] in combat.
      
    • Increases your overall [Attack Speed], [Block Speed], [Rate of Fire], [Reload Speed].
      
    • Increases [Cutting Damage] of weapons.
  • Perception
    
    • How to level up: Using [Ranged Weapons] and stationary [Turrets] in combat.
      
    • Increases your overall [Accuracy], [Range] and ability to [Shooting Moving Targets].
  
  
• Near [Squin] there's lots of Starving/Hungry Bandit patrols, lure them to the city gates to get help from the guards, fight the bandits and loot everything they have, equip your characters and sell everything else.
  
• Beware of Dust Bandits, they are more equipped and harder to kill then the other bandits, but they usually have bounties on them.
  
• Don't worry If you lose some fights against the bandits, that's how you will increase your combat skills and attributes to win future fights, specially against stronger enemies.
  
• Get your [Medic] and leave it out of the fight if you want, in case your squad get unconscious use the [Medic] to heal everyone up, this will help increase its [Field Medic] skill.

Some factions have random characters with bounties on their head, usually the [Dust Bandits], [Grass Pirates], [Tech Hunters]. If you fought some of those, check for bounties by doing the following:

• Select the characters wounded/dead on the ground and search for the ones with a bounty, its a small label on top of the character name on the left side of the screen.
  
• Check where this person is wanted by hovering the mouse on top of the label.
  
• To claim the bounty you have to deliver the Wanted to a [Police Station] and put him in one of the [Prisoner Cages].
  
• Bounties for these random characters can get you around ~2000 cats for each.

After training your combat skills a bit you can start exploring nearby [Squin] without worrying too much about fighting other Bandit squads.

• Follow Trade Caravans, it will help you with:
  
  • Explore the world in a safer way.
    
  • Level up your combat skills and attributes by helping them during fights.
    
  • Level up your [Field Medic] skill by healing the caravan's people, make sure to bring lots of [First-Aid] items.
    
  • Increase your faction relations with the Traders.

If you want to steal some stuff here and there sometimes you should do the following:
• (Optional) Pay 10.000c to join the [Shinobi Thieves] and use their training stations to level up Thievery related skills and have access to Thief Fences to sell your stolen goods. They have [Thieves Tower] in multiple cities.
  
  
• There's a [Thieves Tower] in [The Hub] where you can join the [Shinobi Thieves].
  
  
• Research > Training
  
  Optional skills can be trained in the Thieves Tower if you joined the [Shinobi Thieves]
  • (Optional) [Assassination Training]
    
  • [Thievery Training]
    
  • [Lockpicking Training] and [Lockpicking Training 2]
    
  
  
• Level up the Thief skills the max you can by using the training stations.
  
  • Lv9 for [Assassination]
    
  • Lv10 for [Thievery]
    
  • Lv20 for [Lockpicking]
    
  • Lv20+ for [Stealth] if you enabled the [Sneak] mode while mining with your characters.
    
  
  
• Tips:
  
  • Use characters which are good at this job. (Stealth, Lockpicking, Thievery)
    
  • Unequip the Backpack, they give debuffs to some of your Thievery skills.
    
  • Steal only during the night.
    
  • Beware of the field of view of NPCs, don't steal stuff when they are facing your direction, hide yourself behind something to block their view.
    
  • Stealing stuff make noises, make sure nobody is nearby to listen.
    
  • Don't sell stolen stuff on the same town you stole it from.
    
  • If you joined the [Shinobi Thieves] you can sell to Thief Fences located in Bars if you really need money, they pay less but don't care if something is stolen.
    
  • Use equipment gear that give bonus to skills related to this profession.
    

Go to Narko's Trap and loot everything, there's around ~300.000c worth of items or even more if you sell it at the Black Desert City in Deadlands region for ~500% Average Price.

Stock up on Building Materials and Iron Plates, you will need lots of those to build your base.
Make sure you have the following techs before starting your base:

• Core > [Medium Building Shells].
  
• Crafting > [Basic First Aid Kits], [Fabric Manufacture], [Hemp-Based Fabric].
  
• Defence > [Makeshift Walls], [Defensive Walls], [Mounted Crossbows], [Crossbows Turret Strings].
  
• Electrics > [Wind Generator Theory].
  
• Farming > [Cotton Farming], [Wheatstraw Farming], [Baking].
  
• Industry > [Iron Plates], [Iron Plates 2].
  
• Training > [Turret Training], [Turret Training 2].

Good regions to start your settlement:

• Okran's Pride (Holy Nation Territory) - Make sure to hide your [Skeleton] race characters inside the buildings, otherwise the patrols of Paladins will attack them on sight. Also when going to the nearby Holy Nation cities, always use your Greenlander Male character.

Find a good location for your settlement by using the [Prospect] button on the bottom right side of the screen to find the resources below:

• Near a source of animals for [Meat] and [Skins].
  
• Iron Resources
  
• Copper Resources
  
• Stone
  
• Water
  
• Fertile Land

Aim to be self-sufficient in crafting those materials:

• Building Materials (Require Stone)
  
• Iron Plates (Require Iron Ore)

Research the Smithing > [Weapon Melting] to smelt all the crap weapons you loot, this will give you lots of [Iron Ore], you can use it to craft better weapons to use/sell.

Fight some bandits around The Hub, some of them might have bounties on their head, you can capture and carry them over a Police Station to claim your bounty and increase the relations with the Faction you delivered the bandits.

Fill a Wooden Backpack with Iron Ore and Pick Up someone or something to Carry on your shoulders, then start walking.

Requirements:
• Wooden Backpack filled with Iron Ore or something heavier.
  
• Carry someone or something.

Location = South area of Skinner's Roam region.
Find a group of ~40 Starving Bandits and attack their leader until you get KO, get up as soon as you can specially if your character is "playing dead" for a massive level boost. Becareful and don't kill youself, don't let any limbs get near -100.

Requirements:
• Heavy Armor with the best quality available.
  
• Lots of Medkits, Splintkits and a Sleeping Bag.
  
• Block mode enabled.
  
• Press "R" and "Right-Click" like crazy when fighting.

• Location = Walk while in stealth behind the Throne of Cat-Lon, when he begins his speech quicksave and quickload, then spam the assassination action.

Running while Weightless at max speed.

Requirements:
• Wooden Sandals (1.10x Athletics Bonus)

[ Crossbow ]

Knockout a BeakThing | Gorillo and as soon as it gets up, pause the game and Pick Up the beast. Place it inside a empty building where it can get stuck and use it as target practice. Keep healing the beast.

[ Martial Arts ]

Knockout a BeakThing | Gorillo and as soon as it gets up, pause the game and Pick Up the beast. Place it in a Bed and use it as a training dummy. Keep healing the beast.

[ Melee Attack ]

• Location = Fight Crabs in Howler Maze region.
  Wear Heavy Armor and a Naginata Katana.
  
• Location = Fight Skeleton Bandits in [Iron HQ] in The Crags region.
  Wear Heavy Armor and a Naginata Katana. Lure the Bandits into a nearby house and HOLD your position in the staircase of the house.

[ Stealth ]

• Location = South area of Skinner's Roam region.
  Find a group of ~40 Starving Bandits, maintain a close distance while in stealth mode.
  
• Location = [Lost Library Ruins] Northeast of Rebirth region.
  Walk in the Cliff next to the Blood Spiders, while in stealth mode.

[ Thievery ]

Find a KO character "playing dead", pause the game and keep stealing his items and returning it to his inventory. Every time you steal it back you get EXP.

Cactus
• [Farm Shops] in The Great Desert towns.

Hemp
• [Swamp Villages] in The Swamp region.

Riceweed
• [Shark] town in The Swamp region.

Wheatstraw
• [General Shops] in towns.
• [Holy Farms] in the Okran's regions.

Hashish
• [Flats Lagoon] town in The Swamp region.

Robotics
• [Black Desert] town in Deadlands region. (~500% Average Price)

Arach
Wind Speed = ~7 km/h
Environment = Dead | Arid 100%
Water = 0%
Fertility = 0%
Stone = Medium
Copper = Very High (? Quality)
Iron = Very High (? Quality)
Dangers = Skin Spiders

Arm of Okran
Wind Speed = ~8 km/h
Environment = Green 100% | Arid 50%
Water = 10%
Fertility = 0%
Stone = Very High
Copper = Low (20 Quality)
Iron = Very High (100 Quality)
Dangers = Cannibals

Bast
West Side.
Wind Speed = ~13 km/h
Environment = Arid 100% | Green 10%
Water = 60%
Fertility = 100%
Stone = Very High
Copper = Very High
Iron = Very High
Dangers = Cannibals, Rebel Farmers

Bonefields
South in the green area.
Wind Speed = ~12 km/h
Environment = Arid 100%
Water = 70%
Fertility = 90%
Stone = Very High
Copper = Very High
Iron = Very High
Dangers = Beak Things, Bonedogs, Boneyard Wolves, Gorrillo Bandits

Border Zone
East Side.
Wind Speed = ~9 km/h
Environment = Arid 100% | Green 10%
Water = 60%
Fertility = 100%
Stone = Medium
Copper = High
Iron = Very High
Dangers = Dust Bandits

Floodlands
Wind Speed = ~6 km/h
Environment = Dead 100%
Water = 0%
Fertility = 0%
Stone = None
Copper =
Iron = 100 Quality
Dangers = Iron Spiders

The Great Desert
Wind Speed = ~15 km/h
Environment = Arid 100%
Water = 10%
Fertility = 30%
Stone = Very High
Copper = Medium (70 Quality)
Iron = Very High (100 Quality)
Dangers = Manhunters, Skimmers, Slave Hunters, Slaver Caravans, Vagrant Bandits

Okran's Gulf
Wind Speed = ~4 km/h
Environment = Arid 100% | Green 10%
Water = 60%
Fertility = 100%
Stone = High
Copper = 80 Quality
Iron = 100 Quality
Dangers = Hungry Bandits

Okran's Pride
Wind Speed = ~15 km/h
Environment = Arid 100%
Water = 160%
Fertility = 100%
Stone = Medium
Copper = 20 Quality
Iron = 100 Quality
Dangers = River Raptors

Okran's Valley
South in the "Crater".
Wind Speed = ~15 km/h
Environment = Arid 100%
Water = 10%
Fertility = 0%
Stone = Very High
Copper = Medium
Iron = 100 Quality
Dangers = Bonedogs, Dust Bandit, River Raptors

Shem
Southeast in the Ponds.
Wind Speed = ~13 km/h
Environment = Arid 100% | Green 10%
Water = 60%
Fertility = 100%
Stone = Very High
Copper = High
Iron = Very High
Dangers = Band of Bones, Beak Things, Dust Bandits, Starving Bandits.

Northeast on the top of the hill.
In the "Crater" to the South.
Wind Speed = ~13 km/h
Environment = Arid 100% | Green 10%
Water = 10%
Fertility = 0%
Stone = Very High
Copper = High
Iron = High
Dangers = Band of Bones, Beak Things, Dust Bandits, Starving Bandits.

Skinner's Roam
Wind Speed = ~6 km/h
Environment = Arid 100% | Green 10%
Water = 40%
Fertility = 50%
Stone = Medium
Copper = 60 Quality
Iron = 100 Quality
Dangers =

Sonorous Dark
Plenty of Base Locations.
Wind Speed = 0 km/h
Environment = Dead
Water = 100%
Fertility = 0%
Stone = Very High
Copper = Very High
Iron = Very High
Dangers = Good Luck.

Stenn Desert
Wind Speed = ~15 km/h
Environment = Arid 100%
Water = 10%
Fertility = 40%
Stone = Very High
Copper = High (70 Quality)
Iron = High (100 Quality)
Dangers = Skin Spider.

Vain
Dangers = Beak Things, Gorillo.

Venge
Center-South in a plain valley.
Wind Speed = ~4 km/h
Environment = Arid 100% | Green 10%
Water = 70%
Fertility = 100%
Stone = Very High
Copper = High
Iron = Very High
Dangers = Beak Things, Thrall Squads.

• Location = [Narko's Trap] in the West side of the region.
  Guarded by Holy Nation soldiers at the entrance and some Security Spiders inside. Around ~300K worth of items. (Robotic Materials, Ancient Books, Engineering Research, AI Core)

Library, contains tons of blueprint techs in the chest.

• Blueprints

• Location = [Waystation] Southeast side of the region.
  Merchant = Doctor Skeleton - Robotic Limbs.

• Location = [Drowned Ruins] in the North side of the river.
  Merchant - Armour King Skeleton - Lots of Masterwork and Specialist armors.